Precarious Outlook for Bay Scallops
By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?
Dragonfly Day to Be Celebrated in Bridgehampton
Saturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.
State Money for Steinbeck House
Supporters of the campaign to transform the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s Sag Harbor waterfront property into a writers’ retreat got some good news last week: Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has nominated the project to receive a state grant of $500,000 toward its purchase.
A New Bureau to Expedite Minor Violations
The East Hampton Town Board voted to allow for adjudication of code violations by an administrative bureau established last year to expedite the processing of minor violations. The town is seeking a director for the bureau, a prerequisite for putting it into effect.